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Appendix Table 3.
Radioactivity in fish from Kabelle Island,
Rongelap Atoll, collected July 24, 1956
Common name
Genus and species
Butterfly fish
Chaetodon
Bone
Liver
0.056
0.196
1.520
Damselfish
Pomacentrus
043
2384
208
Surgeonfish
Acanthurus
035
.306
1.390
Parrotfish
Scarus purpureus
030
»340
314
Fliatfish
Bothus mancus
035
224
Aad
Grouper
Epinephalus merra
-O17
~135
1.400
Grouper
E. fuscoguttatus
.035
O79
886
Snapper
Gna thodentex
O24
.173
ATT
Goatfish
Mulloidichthys
samoensis
038
.028
314
.294
1.460
2,820
Lizard fish
Synodus vartegatus
.019
116
113
Squirrelfish
026
2124
84,170
Squirrelfish
Holocentrus
Sammara
Myripristis
020
127
.3818
Wrasse
Cheilinus
.026
~170
2.470
citrinellus
nigricans
elongatus
aurolineatus
prelinius
fasciatus
Homogenized muscle tissue from
13 species (above), 15 specimens (1 gram tissue from each).
Three plates made from aggregate.
Muscle
021
027
.030
O48
124
. 736